The Practice
Economic Loss Assessment.
When a career is interrupted, the loss is not a salary. It is a trajectory. We reconstruct that trajectory with the rigor a courtroom demands.
What we calculate
Every line item the trier of fact needs, and none they do not.
Six components, combined into a single defensible number. Each source is cited. Each assumption is stated in the report's first pages.
Past lost earnings
Back pay from date of loss to trial, net of mitigation, with benefits and bonus history layered in.
Read the methodologyFuture lost earnings
Front pay to statistical worklife expectancy, with age, sector, and education adjustments.
Read the methodologyFringe benefits & equity
Health, pension, 401(k) match, RSUs and options at grant-date value, deferred comp, long-term incentive plans.
Read the methodologyHousehold & non-market services
Valuation of services the plaintiff would have provided but for the loss, indexed to occupational wage data.
Read the methodologyMitigation analysis
Actual post-termination earnings and imputed earnings where the plaintiff has not reasonably mitigated.
Read the methodologyPresent value & discounting
Risk-adjusted discount rates, tax gross-ups where jurisdiction requires, trial-date reduction.
Read the methodology
Working session, 2026.
Case types
We model losses in employment matters of every posture.
From a first-year wage and hour collective to a nine-figure executive separation, the method is the same. The numbers differ.
- Wrongful termination
- Executive and C-suite separation
- Discrimination and retaliation (Title VII, ADEA, ADA, state analogues)
- Wage and hour class / collective actions
- Non-compete and restrictive covenant valuation
- Equal Pay Act and state pay-equity matters
- Breach of employment contract
- Wrongful demotion and constructive discharge
The File methodology
How the number is built.
Primary data first. Published method second. Every assumption stated in the opening pages of the report.
"A discount rate that cannot be defended in one sentence cannot be defended at all."
Primary data first, public data second.
Each income line ties to documented record evidence: plaintiff W-2s, 1099s, pay stubs, benefits summaries, grant agreements, and deposition testimony. We supplement with the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, the Current Population Survey, and industry compensation surveys where representative.
Worklife from SCK, discount from the curve.
Worklife expectancy comes from the Skoog-Ciecka-Krueger tables with adjustments for education, sector, and specific occupational mortality where relevant. Discount rates are drawn from Treasury yield curves matched to the loss horizon, not a single blended assumption.
Report and workings together.
The model ships as a written report and a working spreadsheet. Opposing experts receive the same file we built from. Cross can be on the numbers. Not on the workpapers.
Jurisdictions
State-specific analysis for state-specific law.
Every state page carries governing statutes, notable courts, and labor market context. Tiles without detail pages will publish as we author state-specific content. No thin pages.
Live jurisdictions carry authored state-specific content. Others are in preparation.
Next step
Ready for a preliminary assessment?
Send the complaint and the key dates. We return a conflict check and scope estimate within one business day.